To use a nautical analogy If the 1980's are the decade when
the future course of development
for the Walt Disney World resort was finally set,
and the engines thrown to full steam ahead, then the 1990s is when this
behomoth of a ship finally got up to it's top speed in its
pattern of development and growth.

As forward thinking in
the use of new technologies as WDW had been it wasn't until 1990 0r 1991
when it finally adopted the use of UPC (or bar codes) on its' post cards
(and presumably all other merchandise as well). With that inclusion of bar
codes on all postcards almost all of the old cards were
re-issued with bar codes on them. Some new cards were issued but
with so many new resorts, parades, and water parks opening,
all needing their own new merchandise, the new
images focused on those, and a whole new
series of cards would have to wait until later in the 1990's.

20 Magical Years ...Surprise! Celebration

1991 was the 20th anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World,
in celebration of that anniversary not one but TWO new
parades opened within just few weeks of each other in 1991. On September 22,
1991 the surprise celebration parade began, and October 1, 1991 a new night
time light parade began Spectromagic. According to Jeff Lange over at Jim Hill
Media.com
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jeff_lange/archive/2006/09/13/5713.aspx
the units of this parade (Surprise Celebration) were for
the most part recycled from Disneylands Party Gras parade, but with one new
"falloon" (a parade float crossed with a balloon) of Mickey and some
additional changes and features added to some of the other "falloons".
Both of these parades outlived the 20th anniversary festivities by a
long shot, the Surprise Celebration parade ran until June of 1994
when it was replaced by the Mickey Mania parade. Spectromagic has
much in common with its predecessor The Main Street Electrical parade,
both featured floats with large concentrations of bright and colorful lights
both parades have a main theme, and sub sections of music that go with the
individual floats, but there are differences as well,

Spectromagic uses music that is more vocally oriented, whereas MSEP had an
instrumental and electronic melody, Spectromagic also uses some slightly
different lighting effects as well like fiber optics.Spectromagic runs even
today, though it left for a time in 1999-2000 while Disneylands former
Main Street Electrical parade units came to give the park
an encore performance of that parade, when Spectro came back to the Magic
Kingdom a few changes had been made to it here and there according to
wikipedia these were; that the Spectro-men have new heads, the Genie from
Aladdin replaced Roger Rabbit, A Sebastian from The Little Mermaid animatronic
and bubble system were added to King Triton's float, and a
Jiminy Cricket animatronic was added to the finale float.
These 20th anniversary festivities themselves were referred to by some as a
sort of dress rehearsal for the 25th anniversary of WDW in which a lot of the
strategies tried at that time were a sort of test run to see what types
of things could be done to make that celebration special, and also what
didn't work.

At least one other 20th anniversary related
card was issued, but it was in the
Animation Gallery series and it was issued
before the bar codes were added, so of
course I included it in the previous chapter.
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